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Due to Franny and Zooey being this month's book the book club assigned, I'm reminded how much I love J.D. Salinger. I'll admit, I have had little exposure to short stories, but, of what I've read, Salinger's Perfect Day For Banana Fish rates high. I absolutely adore it, quite frankly. If you haven't read it you should give it read.

i had to read those 2 in my critical writing class and they were the only stories i liked from the entire class. i wrote a long paper on the oates story and we watched the movie that was based on it.

there was another story too, i think it's called 'a&p' or something. that one was good too, it was about some kid who quit his job at a grocery store because his boss reprimanded these girls in bikinis who came into the store.

i had to read those 2 in my critical writing class and they were the only stories i liked from the entire class. i wrote a long paper on the oates story and we watched the movie that was based on it.

there was another story too, i think it's called 'a&p' or something. that one was good too, it was about some kid who quit his job at a grocery store because his boss reprimanded these girls in bikinis who came into the store.

Ha, yeah, I've read A&P as well. Yup, those I read for a class in college. I wanna say it was for creative writing too, but Im not 100% sure. I actually still have that text book, which is full of a ton of short stories.

i had to read those 2 in my critical writing class and they were the only stories i liked from the entire class. i wrote a long paper on the oates story and we watched the movie that was based on it.

there was another story too, i think it's called 'a&p' or something. that one was good too, it was about some kid who quit his job at a grocery store because his boss reprimanded these girls in bikinis who came into the store.

Ha, yeah, I've read A&P as well. Yup, those I read for a class in college. I wanna say it was for creative writing too, but Im not 100% sure. I actually still have that text book, which is full of a ton of short stories.

maybe it's the same book. it had all of 'hamlet' in it, which i hated.

I feel ashamed...I think the only one I've read here is Hempel's The Harvest.

My absolute favorite short was written by a good friend of mine, so obviously no one would have heard of it. It's called Grandma's Gang, and it is a semi-fictional account of interactions with Barry the Janitor.

Also, I loved Obsolete from Haunted, as well as Guts. I realize that's likely as typical as saying Fight Club's your favorite film.

I have a .pdf of Salinger's Nine Stories, I'll have to break into that pretty soon.

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